MYSTERIOUS: 3 - What They Never Told You

Banning ‘no-knock’ search warrants won’t stop deadly confrontations between cops, people

What’s needed is a fundamental reevaluation of "dynamic entry" tactics, which should be reserved for life-or-death emergencies.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 16, 2022

Amir Locke's Death Demonstrates the Recklessness of 'Dynamic Entry' Tactics

Banning "no-knock" search warrants is not enough to prevent lethal confrontations between cops and people exercising the right to armed self-defense.

Reason · Feb 16, 2022

Amir Locke funeral set for Thursday; Sharpton to officiate

A funeral service will be held Thursday in Minneapolis for Amir Locke, the 22-year-old Black man shot by Minneapolis police executing a search warrant earlier this month

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2022

Police break into Black man's apartment and shoot him dead while he's lying on the couch

The short piece of video footage shows a black man, who is apparently asleep brandishing gun after he wakes and is shot and killed by police

Daily Mirror · Feb 10, 2022

Cop safety cited in no-knock warrant ahead of Locke's death

Documents show authorities searching the Minneapolis apartment where Amir Locke was killed by a SWAT team member said they believed a no-knock search warrant was necessary to protect the public and officers investigating a violent homicide

The Independent UK · Feb 10, 2022

In Minneapolis’s struggle for justice, everything is ominously interconnected

Minnesota was ordered to pay a settlement to journalists threatened by cops, on the same day high schoolers protested Amir Locke’s death, which involved two officers who’d been previously sued for targeting a BLM protester.

Mic · Feb 9, 2022

Hundreds of students walk out of class to protest police killing of Amir Locke

Calls continue for the city to fully ban no-knock police raids

The Independent UK · Feb 8, 2022

In St. Paul, students protest fatal police shooting of Amir Locke

Hundreds of students walked out of class Tuesday to protest the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Amir Locke, a Black man who was killed by Minneapolis police serving a no-knock warrant at an apartment downtown.

Tribune News Service · Feb 8, 2022

Amir Locke’s cousin arrested in connection to fatal Minneapolis police raid

Locke wasn’t named on the police search warrant that led to his death

The Independent UK · Feb 8, 2022

17-year-old charged in homicide that prompted no-knock warrant, Amir Locke's killing by Minneapolis police

MINNEAPOLIS — A 17-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the Jan. 10 shooting death of a 38-year-old man — the underlying case behind a no-knock warrant and predawn Minneapolis police raid last week that killed 22-year-old Amir Locke.

Tribune News Service · Feb 8, 2022